April 20, 2015
Reblog: “A Little Library History: 1912 Library Director’s Report”
Last week I attended the Washington Library Association conference, where I had the chance to chat with librarians who have been in this profession for decades. When I asked them what changes they’d seen, many of them didn’t know where to begin, but others thought the profession hadn’t really changed that much. Here’s the account…
April 10, 2015
Last chance for free books
At 1 p.m. on Monday, April 13, the contents of the “Free Books” shelves will be boxed up for delivery to UW Surplus. If you’d like to supplement your home library with those materials, please carry them away before then. All available materials are on the three shelves bordered by a white-and-blue dotted line, near…
April 3, 2015
Revision: What’s the purpose of My Bibliography on MyNCBI?
This morning, I sat down with our department’s manager of grants of contracts to discuss the most recent version of SciENcv. It was a very interesting tutorial, and I hope to be able to communicate its contents to you soon. Right now, though, I wanted to communicate one quick revision to one of the…
April 2, 2015
New at the library: online journal access points
It’s a good question. On the one hand, 7,572 is a beautiful number — it implies an enviable breadth and depth of coverage. But on the other hand, if you’re browsing for a journal to read on your commute, or you want to know more about the radiology and nuclear medicine journals out there, that…